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The Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager allows you to put your
accounting data to work by allowing you to generate flexible reports and
scenarios that you can view, manipulate, and analyze to manage your company
toward clear financial goals. How can you raise cash inflow by $1,000 a
month? What's the net effect of a 10-percent increase in sales? Even with
an excellent accounting system, these are not typically easy questions to
answer: they require a program that gives you the flexibility to experiment
with your data.
The Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager for Microsoft Excel gives
you this flexibility: it imports data directly from your accounting system;
it creates reports to assess your financial position; then, it helps you
experiment to fine-tune future performance. The Microsoft Small Business
Financial Manager allows you to:
- View data from several sources.
- Manipulate your data to understand it better.
- Use you data to make predictions about the future.
- Make business forecasts.
View Data From Several Sources
The Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager for Microsoft Excel imports
data automatically from most popular accounting packages. So, even if your
accounting system has changed over the years or you're an accounting
professional with clients who use several systems, you can still integrate
and view financial data from several sources with ease.
Once your data is imported, the Microsoft Small Business Financial Manager
for Microsoft Excel can create flexible standard financial reports
instantly. For example, you can create balance sheets, income statements,
trial balances, statements of change in retained earnings, and cash flow
reports.
Manipulate Your Data to Understand it Better
Unlike most financial reports, these reports are dynamic. If you want to
know where the summary numbers came from, click them for more detail. View
data from the big picture down to individual journal entries.
In addition, you can monitor and understand business performance with
reports that analyze sales, margin, and inventory results. You can drill
down to determine exactly where each dollar is going.
Make Business Forecasts
Perhaps the most powerful use of the Microsoft Small Business Financial
Manager for Microsoft Excel is forecasting. Your data is now available for
experimentation and what-if analysis of potential changes. This forecasting
functionality allows you to identify variables you would like to change,
see the effects of those changes, and steer your company toward a clear
financial goal.
For finance-oriented professionals, the Microsoft Small Business Financial
Manager for Microsoft Excel can be a major time saver. For business owners
who are unfamiliar with the details of financial management, it provides
powerful insight into how your business really works. From short-term
performance tuning to long-term strategic planning, the Microsoft Small
Business Financial Manager for Microsoft Excel helps you experiment,
forecast accurately, and take your business to the next level.
To Get a Quick Look
- Import your data automatically from PC-based accounting systems into
Microsoft Excel with the Import Wizard.
- Consolidate your data automatically into standard financial reports, such
as income statements, balance sheets, trial balances, statements of
change in retained earnings, and cash flow reports for any financial
need, such as five-year planning, loans, or taxes.
- View data in financial reports from the summary level down to individual
accounts. The Reporting and Analysis Wizard shows where your money is
going, so you can manage operations better and identify profitable new
business strategies.
To Look Back
- Compare data across different years, businesses, or even different
accounting systems to assess performance.
- Monitor financial position with dynamic reports that analyze sales,
margin, and inventory results. Eliminate doubt about business
performance over the period.
To Look Ahead
- Chart net income and watch it change for different scenarios, giving you
instant financial feedback about operational decisions.
- Generate interactive what-if reports to forecast the effects of changes
in product mix, product volume, gross profit margin, sales and marketing
costs, working capital, and equipment investments. Know what to expect,
so you can plan ahead.
- Determine the optimal sales strategy with the Sales Analysis Wizard.
Also, Lease Analysis Wizard summarizes lease, buy, or borrow scenarios
to help you reach the right financing decisions.
To Look Good
- Integration with the Microsoft Office family of programs helps you build
custom reports, prepare your data for presentation, and establish the
financial history necessary for attracting investors or major customers.
Supported Accounting Systems
Supported accounting systems include the following:
Computer Associates ACCPAC Plus for MS-DOS, version 6.1
Computer Associates Simply Accounting for Windows, version 3.0a
DacEasy Accounting for MS-DOS, version 5.x
Great Plains Accounting for MS-DOS, version 8.0
One-Write-Plus Accounting with Payroll for MS-DOS, version 4.03
Peachtree Complete Accounting for MS-DOS, version 8.0
Peachtree for Windows, version 3.0
Timeline MetaView, version 2.3
In addition, you can use the coupon in the package to order the software
needed to use the following accounting systems:
BusinessWorks for MS-DOS and Windows, version 9.0
Intuit Quickbooks for Windows, version 3.1
M A S 90 Evolution/2 for MS-DOS, version 1.5
Platinum Series for MS-DOS and Windows, version 4.1
This coupon offer is valid within 30 days of acquiring Microsoft Small
Business Financial Manager for Microsoft Excel. The software will be
shipped free of charge.
NOTE: The Peachtree 3.5 for Windows filter is also available online. This
file did not ship with the Additional Drivers disk.
For additional information, please see the following article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
103005 : SBFM: Peachtree Additional Driver Available